The project is a collaboration amongst the Qatar Foundation’s Policy Hub organizations, the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), the Doha International Family Institute (DIFI), the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) and the iSolouk group at HBKU.
The purpose of this project is to understand the impact of the problematic usage of digital media on family cohesion and relationships within families, the mental health and wellbeing of children and adults, and student learning. Such usage is characterized by being obsessive, excessive, impulsive, and hasty and is colloquially called ‘Digital Addiction’.
This project aims to provide the best practice guidelines for parents and educators and evidence for policymakers to help in addressing this issue in Qatar. Dr. Raian Ali was the scientific adviser of this project.